泰 → 睽
Hexagram 11: Peace → Hexagram 38: Opposition
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 6).
Line 3
九三 无平不陂。无往不復。艱貞无咎。勿恤其孚。于食有福。
Nine in the third place means: No plain not followed by a slope. No going not followed by a return. He who remains persevering in danger Is without blame. Do not complain about this truth; Enjoy the good fortune you still possess.
Line 4
六四 翩翩。不富以其鄰。不戒以孚。
Six in the fourth place means: He flutters down, not boasting of his wealth, Together with his neighbor, Guileless and sincere.
Line 6
上六 城復于隍。勿用師。自邑告命。貞吝。
Six at the top means: The wall falls back into the moat. Use no army now. Make your commands known within your own town. Perseverance brings humiliation.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
魂孤無室，衘指含食；盜張民饋，見敵失肉。
A homeless spirit without shelter, biting its finger, clutching at food. Bandits seize the people's provisions; facing the enemy, one loses the meat.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth above heaven, Peace stripped to its most desolate. A solitary soul has no shelter, sucking its fingers for sustenance — the gesture of an infant or a starving ghost. Bandits spread their nets and intercept the people's offerings; when enemies appear, even the meat is lost. The verse layers deprivation upon deprivation: no home, no food, no safety, and what little remains is seized by thieves. From Peace to Opposition, fire above the lake — heat rises while water sinks, and the two forces diverge. The transformation maps the social rupture: when above and below pull apart, those caught between are left with nothing, reduced to phantom hunger in a world of mutual theft.
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